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Definitions: Vernix
Creamy white stuff covering developing baby. Lots at 20 weeks then goes down.
Definitions: viability
Can survive outside of Womb. Now considered 20 weeks.
Definitions: Periviability
20 to 14 weeks
Definitions: weeks pregnant
Starts first day of last menstrual cycle, two weeks before conception.
LMP
Definitions: weeks gestation
From conception on.
Two weeks less than pregnancy weeks
Definitions: surfactant
Helps break down bond of fluid attraction. Like detergent.
Definitions: Lanugo
Fine hair covering developing baby
Related to fat.
Anorexia grows lanugo
Definitions: mutagens
Physical or chemical agent that changes the genetic material
Definitions: teratogens
Agent that can disturb the development of an embryo or fetus, may cause birth defect
Definitions: Carcinogen
Agent capable of causing cancer in living tissue
LBW
> 5lbs 8oz
SGA
Lowest 10th percentile
Macrosomic
8lbs 12 oz
LGA
Top 10th percentile